Allow me to re-introduce an update for the Niche design website nichedesign.press
Mark Graham Dunn
@markgrahamdunn.bsky.social
Interface Designer https://www.grahamdunn.be
I've been helping design system teams set up their design tokens architecture for several years now. Here's an article in which you'll find an overview of all the tips and tricks I share to start a design token system with confidence.
How to start a design token system with confidence - zeroheight
Louis Chenais walks through building a team's first design token system, covering best practices for creating, documenting, versioning, and syncing design tokens.
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We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details
I'm available for consulting from June. Dev work, DevRel, Dev Education, Content Creation, and helping teams make sensible decisions about automation without betraying their users. 17 years exp, Vienna-based, remote across Europe and beyond. Boosts massively appreciated 💜
My fascination with manga’s started in my 20’s when I discovered Battle Angel Alita. Since then I have searched for and enjoyed manga’s with an edge.
I need a few incoming webmentions for testing (okay, this sounds like a really fishy attempt to generate likes … I promise that it is not! 😂). So would you all please like and repost this piece I recently wrote? You can also read it, of course. matthiasott.com/articles/web...
Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...
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playing with some Niche design 3d renderings a bit hard to control the actual dimension but fun
I built WireView because I got tired of an annoying workflow for sharing iOS screenshots at work. It’s a tiny app that captures screenshots and recordings from your iPhone/iPad over USB and copies them straight to your clipboard. No AirDrop or Universal Clipboard delays. apple.co/3Mvt9V5
Fashionably late, I launched nichedesign.press last night IRL + gave a short lecture on how to self-publish an independent magazine reflecting my own journey. Thanks to everyone who came—it was a blast.
rendered a teaser for the upcoming nichedesign.press irl launch event
My dear iOS dev friends, you *need* to take a look at this thing to record app demos: matte.app
Matte — Polished App Demos in Minutes
Record the iOS simulator, live devices, or any app window. Add backgrounds, device frames, edit and export—all in one native macOS app.
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Couple days back Ghent finally got some snow fall.
Ever wondered how you might use an LLM to document your design decisions? 🤖 I recorded my workflow using Claude Desktop and the template I shared yesterday to create the Architecture Decision Record example featured in the article. Watch the YouTube video ▶️ youtu.be/vyKG6nNixeU...
Documenting Design Systems - Architecture Decisions Record with Claude Desktop
Ever stared at your own design system wondering "why did I do this?" 😅 Design tokens tell you WHAT the decision is, but not WHY. Architecture Decision Recor...
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After more than a year in the making, my self-published Niche design magazine is officially out. Ditch trends, reject boredom. Embrace niche design. Grab a copy or gift one—a sewn-bound paperback will begin shipping soon. nichedesign.press
Niche design: a zine exploring where design flourishes
A zine for designers and product makers seeking meaning beyond metrics, inviting you to rethink our culture through the ways we design.
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I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of
In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life
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Introducing… (Not Boring) Camera 3 years, 100+ prototypes, and wild graphics tech to make our perfect camera. Only to say… forget perfection. Just have fun and capture life’s beautiful chaos. Hope you love it as much as we do—thumbprints and all 🖤 notbor.ing/camera
In 2023, we released our short film 'Agents' with @nianticspatial.bsky.social, imagining our possible future living with AI and XR. In 2025, the agents are here for real - filmed through CREAL's advanced light field display, that lets the camera (and your eye) focus at any depth.
Looking for a UX designer to work on some exciting AI/XR projects, starting ASAP. Signal boosts much appreciated! #xrjobs liquidcity.notion.site/UX-Designer-...
UX Designer (contract) | Notion
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Can I use Bluesky for this? Looking for a freelance technical artist / animator to work with us on a short project from now until late June. Must know unity and be able to make swooshy/drippy/cloudy/blobby things. Thank you! liquidcity.notion.site/Freelance-Te...
Freelance Technical Artist / Animator (Unity) | Notion
Liquid City is a design practice specialising in AI and XR (Augmented and Virtual Reality), with a focus on shaping a positive future for technology in society.
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help
I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.
